Nagios Core and Zabbix are open-source IT infrastructure monitoring solutions. Nagios Core is a mature solution that focuses on flexibility in customization, timely alerts, centralized dashboards, and plugin support for versatile monitoring solutions. Zabbix offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, customizable alerting, user-friendly interface, and extensive reporting.
Comparing the features of Nagios Core and Zabbix:
Pricing and ROI: Nagios Core and Zabbix are free and open-source. Zabbix's user-friendly interface and web configuration might reduce setup and maintenance costs for some. Conversely, Nagios Core's large community and extensive plugin library could minimize the need for paid support. Ultimately, ROI depends on your technical expertise.
Room for Improvement: Nagios Core reviews highlight the need for a more modern UI and easier configuration options. Zabbix reviewers mention occasional scalability limitations for extremely large deployments.
Customer Support: With an open-source model, both rely on community support forums for free assistance. Paid support options are available for Nagios XI and Zabbix enterprise versions, offering faster response times and dedicated help. Reviews suggest a slight edge for Zabbix's community support due to its larger user base.
Deployment: Zabbix offers a more straightforward installation process with a web-based interface for configuration. Nagios Core requires manual configuration through text files, although a web interface is available with the paid Nagios XI version. Both have good documentation, but Zabbix's web interface might be easier for beginners.
The summary above is based on 58 interviews we conducted recently with Zabbix and Nagios Core users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"The core version is no match for the XI version."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"Making it a little easier to configure and set up from the start would help. There are multiple layers that you have to wade through to be able to set it up, to do it the right way, and to get it to do what you want it to do."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"The product could be more secure and more stable."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
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Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Nagios Core is most compared with Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon, OP5 Monitor and LogicMonitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Amazon CloudWatch, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI. See our Nagios Core vs. Zabbix report.
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